Osborn congelton



(No Model.)

0. OONGELTON.

, PIN.

No. 600,477. Patented Mar. 8,1898.

$59.1 &

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OSBORN CONGELTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE HANDY PIN COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PIN.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,477, dated March 8, 1898.

Original application filed October 22, 1897, $erial No. 656,088. Divided and this application filed December 27, 1897. Serial No. 663,749. (No model.) Patented in Canada November 11, 1897, No. 58,099.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OSBORN CONGELTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pins, (for which I have obtained a Canadian patent, No. 58,099, dated November 11, 1897,) of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

[O This case is a division of application Serial No. 656,088, filed October 22, 1897.

This invention relates to fastening devices, and it belongs more particularly to the class known as safety-pins. Its features of novelty and utility may be summarized as follows: In a fastening device of the character referred to, the two ends of a piece of wire extending in opposite directions from a coil in different planes, said ends being pointed and turned inwardly, also in dififerent planes,

whereby said pointed ends mayimpale or be engaged with adjacent substances f rom either side thereof.

In order that my said invention may be clearly understood and explained, I have annexed hereto a sheet of drawings, in which three figures are shown, each of said figures illustrating structural differences in my improved fastening device, but each of said figures embodying the main feature of invention-viz., the means permitting the two ends of a piece of wire to extendin opposite directions from a coil in different planes and to be inturned and pointed, whereby said oppo- 3 5 site ends may impale or be engaged with adjacent substances from either side thereof.

Figure 1 illustrates a form of fastener having coil a, from which extend arms I) 0, each in different but approximately parallel planes, the arm I) continuing into a downward curvature cl and terminating in a pointed end 6, lying approximately in the plane of the lower portion of coil to, and the arm 0 continuing into an upward curvature f and terminating in a pointed end g, lying approximately in the plane of the upper portion of coil a.

With the employment of the form of my fastener just described and as illustrated in Fig. 1 the meeting portions of a garment or different articles to be united may be engaged from opposite sides thereof, and where such portions or articles overlap one another the fastening device may become entirely hidden from view when applied ,as will readily be understood.

The pointed ends of the pin device are parallel with each other and in tangential line with the outer circumference of the central coil at each side.

Fig; 2 shows amodified construction wherein one of the arms, as It, has a bend 'i in its outward passage, said bend i lying contiguous to the pointed end e of the arm, forming a shoulder to serve as a guard in limiting the attacking power of the pointed end. This figure illustrates the employment,with an engaging locking-arm, as h, of an engaging open arm, as j, said arms having oppositely and reversely arranged impaling-points.

In Fig. 3 will be seen a pair of arms h cor- 7c responding to the arm h of Fig. 2, said arms 71, however, being oppositely and reversely arranged, as seen.

while for convenience I characterize the material of my fastener as a piece of wire, I intend this term to cover any material that can be used, whether it be in cross-section either round, flat, oval, square, or otherwise.

I also wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself in this application to the employment of any particular material in the construction of my fastening device, although I prefer to use a spring material; nor do I limit myself to the exact details of construction herein shown and described, realizing fully that various other modifications may be utilized, all within the scope of my invention but I desire to claim, broadly, as follows:

A pin device comprising a central coil, arms extending at each side of the coil terminating in oppositely-formed inturned pointed ends, said ends being parallel with each other and in tangential line with the outer circumference of the saidcoil at each side.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 22d day of December, 1897.

OSBORN CONGELTON.

\Vitnesses:

L. T. SULLIVAN, TOM WATSON. 

